DAERA Ireland Postgraduate Fully-funded Studentship 2025

Introduction

In 2025, are you a foreign student hoping to study agriculture, the environment, or rural affairs for a research degree in the UK or Ireland? In 2025, there will be intriguing postgraduate studentship possibilities available in Northern Ireland through the Department of Agriculture, Environment, and Rural Affairs (DAERA). These fully funded Irish scholarship grants offer a substantial maintenance allowance in addition to tuition reimbursement.

This proposal is for funding for a three-year postgraduate research program that will start in the academic year 2025–2026 and lead to a PhD. Your chosen DAERA Research Need for 2025 must be addressed in research proposals. Before filling out this form, please review the DAERA Postgraduate Studentships Terms and Conditions 2025/26. All data will be handled with the utmost confidentiality and in accordance with the 2018 Data Protection Act (DPA) and the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UKGDPR). Our Terms and Conditions 2025/26 include our Privacy Notice.

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Benefits

Tuition and a maintenance allowance are covered by full support.

Research opportunities: Take part in innovative studies in rural affairs, agriculture, and the environment.

Networking: Make connections with top academics and business leaders.

Career development: Acquire useful skills and experience for future employment.

Eligibility criteria

In order to qualify for a DAERA studentship, you need to:

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Be a student from abroad.

possess a solid academic foundation in a related discipline.

be admitted to a PhD program at a university in the UK or Ireland.

fulfill the particular requirements for eligibility listed in the DAERA terms and conditions.

Academic Qualifications

(Applicant Form, Section C)

A First or Upper Second Class Honours degree from an Irish or British university is the minimum academic requirement, or credentials and experience deemed by the Department to be comparable.

Applicants who are taking their final degree exam in June 2025 are eligible to apply. Any compensation given in this situation will depend on the findings of a satisfactory examination. Before the examination results are known, no prize will be confirmed.

Prior to the start of the studentship, candidates must provide official, final results of all credentials that will be used to fulfill the academic criteria.

To be eligible for a PhD, students must be able to show that they can participate in and benefit from research training all the way through to completion.

Applicants who already have a PhD or who have been enrolled in a full-time, doctoral-degree-granting research program for more than a year, or part-time equivalent, and who are supported by any source, including self-financing students, are not eligible for a research scholarship.

Selection Process

Shortlisting (application form section G)

If it becomes essential to shortlist candidates for an interview following an eligibility screening, the Panel will apply shortlisting criteria 1 and 2 in the following order:

Section G1 of the shortlisting criteria requires the candidate to present compelling evidence of how their research proposal addresses the DAERA Research Need 2025 that you have chosen. The candidate must also provide evidence by outlining the research's target audience, its potential impact, particularly its economic impact, and how the findings will be used.

Criteria for shortlisting: (part G2) The candidate must present substantial proof of the caliber of the research plan.

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Interview

On April 14, 15, and 16, 2025, criteria-based interviews will take place at Clare House, 303 Airport Road West, Belfast, BT4 9ED.

Those who are invited for an interview will receive written notice via email of the interview date and time. Only in the case of an emergency or illness will the dates at 6.2.1 be altered. There will not be any fees associated with attending interviews.

Research applicants Before being interviewed, studentship candidates are required to have thoroughly thought through the project they want to work on, discussed it with, and gotten advice from a suitably qualified adviser.

During the interview, candidates will not be allowed to use any prepared notes to answer questions from the panel.

Duration of studentship

Studentships typically last no more than three years, though they may be renewed annually with the supervisor's approval. Every year, DAERA staff members typically meet with supervisors and students to review progress.

Before the third year of the studentship begins, the student must be officially registered for a PhD. Students who initially intended to apply for an MPhil are not eligible for studentships. The studentship will not be extended into the third year if it is known prior to the commencement of the third year that the student would be applying for an MPhil. A student's studentship will end right away if they transfer to an MPhil program in their third year.

We must be notified right away of any issues that arise that could seriously affect the studentship's progress. The Department will only consider extensions past the standard three-year funding period in extraordinary circumstances. Only in order to make up for time lost due to circumstances beyond the student's and the host institution's control can an extension be granted. To do this, a formal request must be sent to DAERA, with the supervisor's agreement. A detailed plan for finishing within the allotted time should be included, along with the request's current status of progress toward completion and any unforeseen circumstances that have slowed it down.

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